194. * Muriate of Lime. 
ing it in a bottle covered tightly by a bladder 
of the bladder suffer the atoms of water to « 
those of the alcohol.—Jdem. | oo 
29. Meteoric Iron.—\t was announced by M. de Hum- 
boldt to the French Academy, in October last, that, agreea- 
bly to a letter from M. Boussingault dated at Santa Fe de 
Bogota, this traveller had found, between Tunja and jhe 
high plain of Bogota, several masses of meteoric iron, very 
ctile. The weight of one of them is about 3000lbs. M. 
Boussingault, conjointly with M. Rivero, has taken levels of 
the whole mountainous country between Caraccas and Santa 
Fe.—Idem, Dec. 1823. 
30. Rain.—The quantity of rain which fell at Paris in the 
year 1823, as measured in the yard of the Royal Observato- 
ry, was 20.4 inches. The quantity which fell upon a ter- 
race at an elevation of about 92 feet above the yard wa 
17.98 inches. The number of days of rain was 175.—-Idem. 
31. Muriate of lime.-—M. Dubuc, an apothecary of Rouen 
in France has discovered that muriate of lime is a very ac- 
tive manure or vegelable stimulant. He dissolves about two 
and a quarter Ibs. of the dry salt (chloruret of calcium) in 
about sixteen gallons of water, and with this solution waters 
the plants at distant intervals. He sprinkled a light soil 
with this fluid, and cight or ten days after planted it with 
“maize, and from time to time during the season watered the 
corn with the same solution. Another portion of corn, at 
six feet distant, he watered with common waters. he for- 
mer yielded double the produce of the latter. A grand va- 
riety of plants and garden vegetables were tried in the same 
manner and with similar results. The sun-flower, (helian- 
thus,) which in that place rises only to six or eight feet, grew 
by this treatment to the height of twelve or fifteen feet, 
with flowers whose disks were eighteen or twenty inches in 
diameter, producing seeds which yielded half their weight 
in oil good to eat, and exuding from its centre a transparent 
vein of turpentine, very odorous, and drying easily in the 
air. Potatoes were also tried. They were planted on the 
Ist of May, 1822, in two squares six feet asunder ; the one 
was watered with the solution, and the other with water 
from the cistern. They were gathered on the 10th of Ne 
